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Online PHP Manual We have a short announcement. We have added a new resource to our Tools section: PHP Manual. Not a tool per se, but a great manual for anyone who uses PHP – which is about any webmaster given the power, versatility, and widespread usage of the PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) programming page. The manual is fully index and hyperlinked – and searchable. The manual will be updated on regular basis to stay up-to-date with php.org. PHP is a powerful programming language. Instead of lots of commands to output HTML (as seen in C or Perl), PHP pagesRead More →

Happy Victoria Day Weekend A happy Victoria Day Weekend to all Canadians. What is Victoria Day? Victoria Day is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday. The date is also, simultaneously, that on which the current reigning Canadian sovereign’s official birthday is recognized. It is sometimes informally considered as marking the beginning of the summer season in Canada. The holiday has been observed in Canada since at least 1845, originally falling on the sovereign’s actual birthday, and continues to be celebrated in various fashions across the country on the fixed date; theRead More →

Online Unix Manual A short announcement in the form of a blog post. We have brought back the Unix Manual tool. We took tool offline for awhile to re-tool (excuse the pun) it, and beef up the security of the application. But, it is back in all its glory. This tool allows you to search the Unix Manual as it pertains to Unix commands. A very useful online tool if you are a webmaster who issues Unix commands from time to time: typically via the command shell using SSH (Secure Socket Shell) to manage your web server. If you don’t, you should look intoRead More →